Still confidence was not restored to all minds, and the general opinion was that the complete ruin of the unfortunate shipowner had been postponed only until the end of the month.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The first effort to organize the coffee roasters of the United States dates back to 1885, when several St. Louis coffee roasters came together in a kind of gentlemen's agreement not to cut the price of roasting green coffee, which had declined, owing to ruthless competition, from $1.00 to 10 cents a bag.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

1911—The coffee roasters of the United States organize into a national association.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Revised Edition, with an Appendix containing nearly ten thousand new notices, and the most recent Statistical Information, according to the latest Census Returns, of the United States and Foreign Countries.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

The best account of the war with Spain is F.E. Chadwick, Relations of the United States and Spain:
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

On the under side the wings are white, with faint pale-brown spots on the hind wings and distinct black spots on the fore wings, more numerous than in L. lycea , which it closely resembles on the under side.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

During the past year nothing has occurred to disturb the general friendly and cordial relations of the United States with other powers.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The first mentioned position would, if it could be sustained, be sufficient to prove, and is, as I think, the only one that could prove, the absolute and complete right of the United States to the whole contested territory.
— from The Oregon Question by Albert Gallatin

Common resident of the Upper Sonoran Zone west of the deserts and Great Basin drainage from the Mexican line through the San Diegan district, northward coastwise to San Luis Obispo and San Benito counties, and interiorly along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada to the lower McCloud River, in Shasta County; also along the inner northern coast ranges from Helena, Trinity County, and Scott River, Siskiyou County, south to Covelo, Mendocino County, and Vacaville, Solano County.
— from Bird-Lore, March-April 1916 by Various

(44) "Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States"—'Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge,' vol.
— from The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson

—Trunk gray or grayish-brown, in old trees deeply furrowed and broken up into rather small, thickish, loose scales; branches brown-gray; branchlets with or without [Pg 109] prominent corky ridges on the upper side; young twigs yellowish.
— from Handbook of the Trees of New England by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

—In the House, resolutions submitted, which are designed to vindicate the commercial rights of the United States against belligerents of Europe, 189 ; their introduction not inconsistent with the most friendly negotiation, 189 ; high time these rights were vindicated or abandoned, 189 ; upon what principles do the belligerents pretend to justify these commercial restrictions?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress